How To Mount a Logical Volume

A volume group is a filesystem that can be put onto a partition of a hard drive. What this filesystem type allows you to do is to break down that partition into smaller partitions (each one known as a logical volume), allowing for more compact & versatile storage management.

When trying to check or recover a logical volume it can be unintuitive to mount as you don't mount the /dev/sd**xY** partition, instead, the volume group on the partition needs activating and then the separate volumes can be mounted.

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• Identify the ID of the disk to be mounted:

[stuart@asuka ~]$ sudo fdisk -l

• Display all volume groups:

[stuart@asuka ~]$ sudo pvs

• Identify logical volumes for volume group:

[stuart@asuka ~]$ sudo lvdisplay /dev/VolGroup**XX**

• Activate volume group:

[stuart@asuka ~]$ sudo vgchange VolGroup**XX** -a y 4

• Mount the logical volume:

[stuart@asuka ~]$ sudo mount /dev/VolGroup**XX**/LogVol**XX** /mnt/